white house north lawn. i appreciate you taking time with us. what does this say, the new numbers about the sequester and tax increase issues? are we still waiting for the real impact, like you told us when we spoke to you last month? >> oh, i think we've seen the impact of the sequester already. today's numbers and other indicators coming in show us the resilience of the u.s. economy. what we saw in last quarter's gdp a head wind on economic growth. the government spending subtracted from gdp growth last quarter. the congressional budget office that the sequester will reduce job growth. i think if it weren't for the sequester, the economy would be in even a stronger position. the president has proposed a balanced way to replace the sequester with balanced deficit reduction. that would help the economy in the near term and also address our long-term budget problem. >> mr. kruger, whieger, we put graph. construction down 6,000 jobs in the last month. government also down 11,000. a lot of that attributable to